Pygmalion was formulated into a musical called My Fair Lady. The musical and novel have numerous similarities but also stark contrasts. Both have the same characters and plot but the musical took a different path from the play and portrayed some scenes differently. The three major differences between the two are the endings, the deepness of emotions expressed, and the evolution of Henry Higgins.
The obvious difference between the two is of course that My Fair Lady is a musical and Pygmalion is a book. But, the songs that the musical provides creates a deeper meaning to the emotions of the characters and enhances the plot. This shows when Higgins sings the song about allowing a woman into his life, the song confirms previous notions that he
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He changes from a stone cold, unemotional, and overbearing person to a man that is willing to love. He changes his views on Eliza and develops feelings for her. In Pygmalion, he does not show the capacity to love. He misses Eliza but not the extent he does in the musical. His development is much greater throughout the play than anything shown in My Fair Lady.
The last major difference between the two is the engings. In Pygmalion, Shaw has Eliza leaving Higgins for Freddie. This is a sharper ending than My Fair Lady because it shows that Eliza claimed her freedom and independance. She goes off to marry Freddie and does not develop deeper feelings for Higgins. My Fair Lady has a more romantic ending where Harrison and Hepburn play up the love-hate relationship. Unlike Pygmalion, My Fair Lady depicts the common happy ending where the unbreakable, stone cold man falls for the girl.
Overall the play and musical were very similar, but has some key differences that change the whole tune of the stories. The songs added a different aspect to the characters and allowed the viewers to see what they were feeling much more. Henry Higgins overall develops more as a human being with emotions in My Fair Lady. This development leads to him ending up with Eliza in the end in stead of Freddie in Pygmalion. Both My Fair Lady and Pygmalion are historical pieces of literature with their own subtle differences to set them
First of all in the beginning of the movie it has Maniac Magee at his parent’s funeral and he runs away straight to Two Mills. In the book Maniac is with his relatives and he can’t stand the fighting between his aunt and his uncle so he runs to Two-Mills. I like this part of the book better because I think the situation of why he runs away is more interesting. Another set of plot events in the book that are different are the three plot events that Maniac goes through when he first comes to Two-Mills. In the movie the same three plot events that are at the beginning of the book are distributed all throughout the movie. I like this about the book better because when the movie puts the three plot events in there are terrible
The movie switches the roles of the cyclopes and the hero so that the movie has its own version of this event and so its not exactly like The Oddyssey. Everett and his crew also face a version of the Seirenes. The movie introduces the Seirenes when Pete gets out of the car because he hears this beautiful song that he cannot resist. are very similar, but the movie portrays the book in a unique, interesting way. The movie has most of the characters the book has, but some of the characters do their part in a different way in the movie, that is what makes this new way of the book interesting.
... Diana both authors illustrate that one cannot control his or her fate. In both plays the authors use these characters as a medium for their own beliefs, to express their tone and overall message to the audience.
During the play there were a lot of differences and similarities compared to the stories. I will list some differences and then I will list the similarities. There were a lot of changes in the play’s than the stories such as the setting, characters, props, and how they act or their emotions.
These two very different works are close in correlation as for the actions and chauvinistic ways of the characters. Sammy and the lover's main conflict revolve around the prejudice of class status and restriction the apply. Sammy is stuck at the A&P, and goes unnoticed when he tries to be the hero to three girls out of his league. The lover is overwhelmed with the frustrations associated with his class status because it prevented him and Porphyria from marrying. The resentment both men feel against this prejudice prevent them from making sound decision that leave both lonely and empty handed in the end.
There are usually differences in two different versions of something. This can often be seen when a book is made into a movie. There are many similarities and differences in the book and movie versions of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.
Another difference that was instantly apparent in the movie was the absence of the images that pop up every couple of pages during the play. I think the absence of these images slightly undermines the aura of unreality. The presence of the images represents dreams and imagination, which we know are made up, fantasy. The absence of the dreamlike images helps us forget what Tom says at beginning of the play, "the play is memory. Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental, it is not realistic."
This essay showed the similarity and difference of the endings in these two masterpieces, and how they shared morals.
As stated before, there are more differences than similarities between the short story and the film. One of the main differences
Both use the words of Shakespeare but are strikingly distinct due to rendition of the words and the environment which provides a different feel.
Both of these stories parallel each other. The differences mainly lie in the ideology and culture behind each of them. Faust follows a pure Romantic ideology where as the movie “Bedazzled” bounces around through eras picking and choosing the best of all eras to make a funny, enlightening, and optimistic film. Literature and other forms of media play a great part in portraying a culture in time. Yet, these works of art are timeless.
So many love stories have the same plot and events happening as in other stories. Pyramus and Thisbe and The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet are a great example of how similar two love stories can be. There are many affinities between these stories that make them almost identical. The stories both are not only love, but tragedy as well! You can see this from the title of Romeo and Juliet, but not as much in Pyramus and Thisbe.
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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play that shows a great change in the character Eliza Doolittle. As Eliza lives in poverty, she sells flowers to earn her living. Eliza does not have an education. This shows through the way that she does not have the most proper way of speaking. This happens through when Eliza is speaking to the other characters when she meets then when she is still at a low level of poverty in her life. To understand the reasons Eliza is able to change and be changed into an almost Cinderella like character. With Eliza going from and growing and changing through the hardship she faces. In the play Eliza begins with no confidence and works towards having a way to reach trough from learning during her life experiences. Learning through the other characters Eliza meets through out the play. Eliza grows stronger and shows how she is able to change her ways one can understand how she is able to change and makes these changes by seeing her through poverty, how she is interacting with the other characters in the play, and through the things she learns from the options that are provided to her. Eliza’s beginning education skills of learning to speak clearly through learning diction, etiquette, and looking proper for society. In addition, from how Eliza feels rich when she has money from the broken flowers and when she is able to be riding in the taxi, her ideas showing her strong will her insistence on marrying Freddy. Both Eliza and Cinderella grow up in poverty, have a stepmother figure, have a fairy godmother figure, arrive at the ball, show confidence, and married. By comparing and contrasting Eliza to Cinderella, we can better understand why and how Eliza changes.
The traits men want in our women can never and will never be attainable by any person, no matter who they are. For many years, love has been kind of a lost cause. Men might look for a woman that could satisfy their needs in the present, but they had no thought of what she might be like in the future. Male and female relationships in the myth Pygmalion, the book Pygmalion, and in “real” life have many similarities. All the men look for the most desirable traits in women, and sometimes we don’t always get what we want. But with those similarities, comes a few differences.